If you have been to a place, you have gone to it or visited it.
He's already been to Tunisia, and is to go on to Morocco and Mauritania. [VERB preposition/adverb]
I've been there before. [VERB preposition/adverb]
3.
See been there, done that (got the t-shirt)
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been in British English
(biːn, bɪn)
verb
the past participle of be1
been in American English
(bɪn; often bɛn; Cdn also and Brit usually bin)
verb intransitive
pp. of
be
Word origin
ME ben < OE beon: see be
Examples of 'been' in a sentence
been
I let out my breath: I'd been unaware I'd been holding it in.
Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2002)
Sorry to leave you waiting like that, she said, without explaining where she'd been or what she'd been up to.
Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2002)
His eyes looked slightly sunken behind his glasses; he hadn't been sleeping well.
Lisa Scottoline RUNNING FROM THE LAW (2002)
All related terms of 'been'
be
You use be with a present participle to form the continuous tenses of verbs.
bist
to have presence in the realm of perceived reality ; exist; live
has-been
If you describe someone as a has-been , you are indicating in an unkind way that they were important or respected in the past , but they are not now.
have been around
to have had wide experience; be sophisticated
might-have-been
that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
been-there done-that
an exclamation expressing familiarity and boredom with a situation, experience, etc
has been around/had been around
If someone has been around , they have had a lot of experience of different people and situations .
been there, done that (got the t-shirt)
People say been there, done that to show that they have had a similar experience to the one that has just been mentioned .
lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
to take precautions after harm has been done
Chinese translation of 'been'
been
(biːn)
pp
ofbe
Seeam
Nearby words of
been
beefburger
Beefeater
beehive
been
beer
beet
beetle
All related terms of 'been'
be
( with complement ) 是 shì
you've been had!
你被骗(騙)了！ nǐ bèi piàn le!
where have you been?
你去哪儿(兒)了？ nǐ qù nǎr le?
it can't have been them!
不可能是他们(們)！ Bù kěnéng shì tāmen!
the box had been opened
盒子已被打开(開)了 hézi yǐ bèi dǎkāi le
we've been here for ages
我们(們)已经(經)在这(這)里(裡)好久了 wǒmen yǐjīng zài zhèlǐ hǎojiǔ le